Experts Guide

Sven Leyffer is an internationally recognized leader in numerical optimization, with major accomplishments in three distinct hot-topic areas: nonlinearly constrained optimization, mixed-integer nonlinear optimization, and optimization problems with equilibrium constraints. In all three areas, he has made fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundations; developed state-of-the-art methods and robust implementations; and promoted novel applications, many of pivotal importance to the DOE.

Mr. Conzelmann is the Director of the Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis. His center develops modeling and simulation tools and provides analytical services to government institutions and private sector clients around the world on strategic energy and environmental issues.

Don Hillebrand is the director of Argonne's Center for Transportation Research. In this role, Don is responsible for leading a team of engineers and physicists who are actively seeking to solve transportation problems related to the nation’s reliance on imported energy by developing advanced tools for the analysis of the latest transportation technologies.